Models

Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is Nvidia's free, open-weight speech transcription model, released on 28 October 2026. It handles recordings up to an hour long, transcribes up to 40 languages and can separate up to eight speakers.

Open sourceMultimodalHardware & compute

OpenAI's late-2026 model family: Sol, released at DevDay on 29 September 2026, and the faster, cheaper Terra on 26 October 2026. A planned Astra version was withheld over safety concerns.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useSafety & governance

PixVerse R2 is a real-time world model announced on 22 September 2026, an upgrade to R1 that keeps a navigable world generating while the user moves inside it and holds state across a session.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

Vidu S2 is a two-part video generation system: S2-Avatar renders interactive digital characters at 720p in real time, and S2-Editing transforms live video streams. Both also produce stereo views for immersive displays.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

SenseNova U1.5 is SenseTime's open-weight, 8-billion-parameter model that handles image understanding, reasoning and native 4K generation in a single network, without separate vision encoders or VAEs. It is released under the Apache License 2.0.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

The fastest model in Google's Gemini 3.5 series, released in July 2026 for high-throughput agentic work, and slated to replace gemini-3.1-flash-lite and take over traffic from gemini-2.5-flash.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

Grok 4.5 is an xAI model built for coding, agentic and knowledge work, announced on 16 July 2026. It was trained with Cursor on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs and shipped as the default model in the Grok Build coding tool.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Muse Image and Muse Video are Meta Superintelligence Labs' first media generation models, announced on 7 July 2026. Muse Image launched immediately, and Muse Video entered early preview.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Vidu S1 is Shengshu's real-time interactive video generation model, released in July 2026. It takes spoken commands as control input, runs on consumer GPUs at 540p and up to 42 frames per second, and keeps generating without drift.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

SenseNova U1 is SenseTime's open-weight multimodal model family, first released in April 2026 under Apache 2.0, which understands and generates images without a separate visual encoder or VAE.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

GPT Image 2 is OpenAI's image generation and editing model released on 21 April 2026, also presented as ChatGPT Images 2.0. It succeeded GPT Image 1 and was followed within months by the Sunburst and Flare model lines.

Consumer appsCreative toolsImage generation

Gemma 4 is Google's fourth generation of open-weight models, released in April 2026 and built on the same research and technology as Gemini 3, ranging from phone-sized E2B and E4B to a 26B mixture-of-experts and a 31B dense model.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

A speech-to-text model from Microsoft AI released in April 2026 that transcribes 25 languages, runs Copilot's Voice Mode, and starts at $0.36 per hour of audio.

EnterpriseMultimodalCloud

MAI-Image-2 is Microsoft AI's second-generation text-to-image model, released to developers on 2 April 2026 in Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground, with faster generation and stronger lighting, skin tones and in-image text.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

Midjourney V8, released as an alpha on 17 March 2026, generates images about five times faster than earlier versions, adds a native 2K mode, and improves rendering of text inside images.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is a low-cost, low-latency multimodal model in Google's Gemini 3 family, released in preview in March 2026 and generally available from May 2026 for high-frequency, lightweight tasks.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

Nano Banana 2 is Google's product name for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model in the Gemini API, released in preview on 26 February 2026 and later replaced by Nano Banana 2.1.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

Devstral 2 is Mistral AI's 123B-parameter agentic coding model, released in December 2025 alongside the Mistral Vibe CLI and scoring 72.2% on SWE-bench Verified. It was deprecated in May 2026 and retired that July, replaced by Mistral Medium 3.5.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Amazon Nova 2 is the second generation of Amazon's Nova models, released at AWS re:Invent in December 2025. Its first member, Nova 2 Lite, is a fast reasoning model available in Amazon Bedrock with a 1-million-token context.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal

Runway Gen-4.5 is a video generation model released in December 2025 that topped the Artificial Analysis text-to-video leaderboard and later gained native audio, multi-shot editing and a role as the base for Runway's GWM-1 world model.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

FLUX.2 is Black Forest Labs' image generation and editing model family, released on 25 November 2025, spanning hosted tiers and open-weight releases, with support for 4-megapixel output and up to 10 reference images.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Nano Banana Pro (Gemini 3 Pro Image) is Google's image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, announced on 20 November 2025. It renders legible text, pulls live information from Search, and outputs up to 4K.

EnterpriseGenerative modelsCreative tools

MAI-Image-1 is Microsoft's first image generation model developed entirely in-house, announced on 13 October 2025 and rolled out in Bing Image Creator and Copilot from 4 November 2025.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

An open-source image generation model from Tencent that handles image understanding and generation inside a single autoregressive mixture-of-experts framework; its code, weights and technical report were released in September 2025.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Qwen3-Max is Alibaba's proprietary trillion-parameter language model, released in September 2025 and served through Alibaba's API. It is the Max-tier flagship that followed Qwen2.5-Max.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Seedream 4.0 is ByteDance Seed's image model released in September 2025, which puts text-to-image generation, image editing and multi-image composition into a single architecture and can output images from 1K up to 4K resolution.

ChinaMultimodalGenerative models

A fast reasoning model from xAI for agentic coding, released in August 2025 with low per-token pricing, a 70.8% score on SWE-bench Verified, and integrations with GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Cline and other coding tools.

Agents & tool useReasoningDeveloper tools

Nicknamed "nano-banana", Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Google's image generation and editing model released on 26 August 2025, able to blend images, keep characters consistent across edits and apply targeted natural-language edits.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

A 20-billion-parameter open-weights image generation model released by Qwen in August 2025, notable for rendering text inside images, especially Chinese.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Runway Aleph is a video model released in July 2025 that edits an input video by adding, removing or transforming objects, generating a new angle of a scene, or changing style and lighting, across many visual tasks.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Qwen3-Coder is an open-weight family of coding models from the Qwen team; its flagship 480B-parameter model, announced in July 2025, was built and trained specifically for agentic coding tasks.

Open sourceChinaAgents & tool use

Midjourney's first video model, released on 18 June 2025, turns an existing image into a short clip of about five seconds. It was presented as the company's first step toward real-time open-world simulation.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the lowest-cost model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, built for high-throughput work such as classification and summarisation, with thinking off by default and a controllable thinking budget.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

Apple Foundation Models (2025) are the second generation of Apple's models. They add image understanding and a mixture-of-experts server design, and they open an on-device model to developers through the Foundation Models framework.

Large language modelsFoundation modelsMultimodal

FLUX.1 Kontext is a family of image models from Black Forest Labs, announced on 29 May 2025, that generates and edits pictures from both text and image inputs. Its open-weight dev variant followed in June 2025.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Devstral is Mistral AI's family of open-weight models for agentic coding, first released in May 2025 with All Hands AI; the first version scored 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified and could run on a single consumer GPU.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

Imagen 4 is a Google text-to-image model announced on 20 May 2025 that outputs images at up to 2K resolution with improved fine detail and typography, shipping in the Gemini app, Whisk, Vertex AI and Workspace before its API models were retired in 2026.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

Amazon Nova Premier is the most capable model of the first Nova generation, available in Amazon Bedrock from 30 April 2025. It handles text, images and video with a 1-million-token context window, and also serves as a teacher model for smaller Nova models.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

An open image-editing model from StepFun released in April 2025 under Apache 2.0, pairing a multimodal language model with a diffusion image decoder and shipping weights, inference code and the GEdit-Bench evaluation set.

Open sourceChinaCreative tools

A model in Google's Gemini 2.5 family, released in preview in April 2025 and generally available that June. Google called it its first fully hybrid reasoning model, letting developers turn thinking on or off with a token budget.

Large language modelsConsumer appsReasoning

Seedream 3.0 is ByteDance Seed's Chinese–English image-generation foundation model of 2025, improving on Seedream 2.0 in prompt alignment, Chinese text rendering and native 2K output. Seedream 4.0 succeeded it in September 2025.

ChinaGenerative modelsCreative tools

OpenAI's April 2025 family of three API models — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano — offering a context window of over a million tokens, low prices per token and stronger coding scores. It was succeeded by GPT-5.

Large language modelsEnterpriseDeveloper tools

A speech-to-speech foundation model in Amazon's Nova family, announced on 8 April 2025, which handles recognition, understanding and speech generation in a single model rather than a chain of separate ones.

Agents & tool useMultimodalGenerative models

Midjourney V7 is an image generation model released as an alpha to Midjourney's community on 4 April 2025, the first of the company's models to have personalization on by default and the first to add a cheap, fast Draft Mode.

Consumer appsGenerative modelsCreative tools

Runway Gen-4 is a video generation model released on 31 March 2025 that keeps characters, locations and objects consistent across shots, working from reference images and text instructions rather than per-project training.

MultimodalGenerative modelsCreative tools

Hunyuan-T1 is Tencent's deep-reasoning model, officially released on 21 March 2025 and built on the Hunyuan-TurboS base. Tencent did not release its weights.

Large language modelsChinaReasoning

Gemma 3 is Google's third generation of open Gemma models, released on 12 March 2025 in 1B to 27B sizes, with a 128,000-token context window, image input on the larger variants, and support for more than 140 languages at the pretrained level.

Large language modelsOpen sourceMultimodal

Hunyuan Turbo S is a fast-thinking model released by Tencent on 27 February 2025, built on a hybrid Mamba-Transformer design with 560 billion total parameters. Its weights were not released.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Step-Video-T2V is an open text-to-video model with 30 billion parameters. StepFun released its weights, code, a Turbo variant and a technical report under the MIT license on 17 February 2025.

Open sourceChinaGenerative models

Qwen2.5-Max is Alibaba's large mixture-of-experts model, announced in January 2025. It was offered through Qwen Chat and the Alibaba Cloud API, and its weights were not released.

Large language modelsChinaFoundation models

Janus-Pro is DeepSeek's January 2025 multimodal model that handles both image understanding and text-to-image generation in one system, released in 1B and 7B sizes as a stronger successor to Janus.

Open sourceChinaMultimodal

Gemini 2.0 Flash is the first model of Google's Gemini 2.0 generation, released as an experimental model in December 2024 with multimodal output and native tool calling, and made generally available in February 2025.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useMultimodal

Amazon Nova is Amazon's family of foundation models, introduced on 3 December 2024 and offered exclusively in Amazon Bedrock. It spans text understanding models from Micro to Pro, plus Canvas for images and Reel for video, and was succeeded by Nova 2 in December 2025.

Large language modelsEnterpriseMultimodal

A family of text-to-image models from Stability AI, announced in October 2024: the 8.1-billion-parameter Large, a 4-step Turbo variant and the 2.5-billion-parameter Medium, released under a community licence.

Open sourceGenerative modelsCreative tools

Movie Gen is a set of media foundation models Meta premiered on 4 October 2024. It covers video generation, personalised video, precise video editing and audio generation, and was not released publicly.

Foundation modelsGenerative modelsCreative tools

A closed text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs, released on 2 October 2024 and available only through an API. Black Forest Labs said it generates six times faster than its predecessor, and it reached the top of the Artificial Analysis image arena leaderboard.

Generative modelsCreative toolsImage generation

Hunyuan Turbo is Tencent's large language model, released on Tencent Cloud in September 2024 and tuned for lower training and serving costs. It was succeeded in February 2025 by Hunyuan Turbo S, which cut API prices further.

Large language modelsChinaEnterprise

Yi-Coder is a family of open-source code models from 01.AI, released in September 2024 in 1.5B and 9B sizes, each with base and chat versions, covering 52 programming languages with context up to 128K tokens.

Large language modelsOpen sourceChina